Train journey from Ambewela to Ohiya and back on a Goods' Train!
The Ambewla Station sits 3/4 of a mile from Pattipola the highest railway station in Sri Lanka. One of the Station Masters is Mr. D.M.N.P Bandara, a young recruit out of Colombo University and a helpful and kindly soul who mans the station sometimes 24X4 in the 5degress Celsius cold nights.
We've quizzed him for hours on the train schedule and the work and he would patiently sit with us and explain the signals and about how the Goods's trains would shunt carriages at his station.
The Ambewla Station sits 3/4 of a mile from Pattipola the highest railway station in Sri Lanka. One of the Station Masters is Mr. D.M.N.P Bandara, a young recruit out of Colombo University and a helpful and kindly soul who mans the station sometimes 24X4 in the 5degress Celsius cold nights.
We've quizzed him for hours on the train schedule and the work and he would patiently sit with us and explain the signals and about how the Goods's trains would shunt carriages at his station.
On impulse we bought two and half tickets from him and on his advice decided to travel half hour to Ohiya and back by catching the next Goods' train from Bandarawela. It was a pleasant journey on a half empty train. The Namunukula mountain range looked massive and impressive and the colours that time of the years on the tree tops created such an abstract painting over the hills.
We took the 9.30am Goods train and 11.30 train from Ohiya back to Ambewela and it takes 3hours for this round trip and the view is breathtaking. We reached Ambewela 3hours after we left the station. There had been some shunting at Hapulate and the train got slightly delayed.
There's parking available at all stations for your vehicle and people man the station all day and it's quite safe to leave your vehicle.
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